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>I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. HRC's secret email server and the leaked Kash Patel emails couldn't be more different. The first one is, in the words …

Curiously, they refill the empty bladders with air before sledding them back to McMurdo. "For safety", but the article doesn't explain why this is safer.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-... > In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surr…

What's an example of a decent protest in your view?

> I expect that designs for 'permanently underground/inside' cities would need to include some high-ceiling park-like areas with some bright UV lights, and other considerations, bu…

Agreed. You could cover your above-ground pressurized habitat with blocks of ice. Or with a thick layer of dirt. But the subjective experience remains about the same as living unde…

Low gravity is one thing. But the radiation outside the Earth's magnetic field is quite another. People colonizing Mars will need to shield themselves from several types of harmful…

Their modulus squared gives you the probability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_amplitude

Is Jack Dorsey, the Twitter CEO, a good enough source? https://thehill.com/policy/technology/402495-twitter-ceo-jac... > Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I 'fully admit' our bias is 'more …

The granite sarcophagus in the "Kings's Chamber" [1] of the Great Pyramid of Giza has been used as a lithophone too. Paul Horn's record album "Inside The Great Pyramid" [2] starts …

Is there a Raspberry Pi 4 case somewhere for sale that can hold a 2.5 inch HDD?

Beluga whale playing fetch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uMSl28_8Rw

Entire text: Short Thread: staying with some friends and last night after everyone went to bed I could not figure out how to turn off the large ceiling light in their living room. …

> Such questions are not tolerated, so be warned. These are fair questions. Where are they not tolerated? And by whom?

> it is becoming increasingly apparent that non-technical solutions to climate change will necessarily include the elimination of those who metaphorically are holding a gun to huma…

> What will be the unintended consequences of foresting deserts I think you are overly concerned but here you raise a good point: foresting a desert could lower the albedo of the E…

> Now had we created no-development zones around forests, to allow them to expand naturally, in a world not deforesting at ever increasing rate... I am no fan of rainforest destruc…

> if you biochar fallen trees and litter, and then bury it, it stays sequestered for a long time. > It also improves the soil long term - particularly in sandy soils it helps water…

> The phenomenon needs a good name, though. Jamie Zawinski calls this the CADT model: "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers". https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

>If these things were flying in 1997, presumably what's up there now is even better. The USA-224 satellite was launched in 2011 and has much better capabilities than the ones that …

> how would you feel if you went on a Hacker News break for 3 months and dang gave your username to someone else? The funny thing is - dang (AKA gruseom) appropriated his username …

> spinning rust TIL https://etherealmind.com/network-dictionary-spinning-rust/ > Spinning Rust – term for conventional hard disk drives with motors and using ferrous-based platters…

I think GP meant with "higher immigration limits" : less restrictions on immigration.

"Clovis first" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#Clovis_First/...

The Apollo 13 astronauts would like to share a couple of anecdotes with you.